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Wandlungsdynamiken transnationaler Familien unter Krisenbedingungen : Biographische Perspektiven auf Familienfigurationen zwischen Spanien und Ecuador
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich

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When family members migrate internationally, it usually means a deep change in the relationships they maintain with each other. The author examines this process in families organized across borders between Ecuador and Spain. In doing so, the effects of the recent economic crisis in the country of arrival are considered in the light of a process of familial change that has lasted several decades. The particular resilience of familial power relations is thereby evaluated as ambivalent. Gesellschaftliche Umbrüche bedeuten für Migrierende und ihre Familien eine besondere Herausforderung; zusätzlich zur meist notwendigen Neuaushandlung der Beziehungen nach der Migration eines Familienmitglieds. Die biographisch angelegte Fallstudie untersucht diesen Prozess in grenzübergreifend organisierten ecuadorianischen Familien und schaut besonders auf sich verschiebende Machtbalancen. Die Bedeutung der jüngsten Wirtschaftskrise im Ankunftsland Spanien wird dabei vor dem Hintergrund eines mehrere Jahrzehnte andauernden familialen Wandlungsprozesses erschlossen. Im Ergebnis erweist sich die Krise als weniger einschneidend als zuvor angenommen, wobei die Resilienz familialer Machtverhältnisse als ambivalent bewertet wird.


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Eurasian
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ISBN: 0520276272 0520957008 9780520957008 9781299713277 1299713270 0520276264 9780520276260 9780520276277 9780520276260 9780520276277 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities. Teng argues that Eurasians were not universally marginalized during this era, as is often asserted. Rather, Eurasians often found themselves facing contradictions between exclusionary and inclusive ideologies of race and nationality, and between overt racism and more subtle forms of prejudice that were counterbalanced by partial acceptance and privilege. By tracing the stories of mixed and transnational families during an earlier era of globalization, Eurasian also demonstrates to students, faculty, scholars, and researchers how changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride.  


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Gender and Migration : IMISCOE Short Reader
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ISBN: 3030919714 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer Nature

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This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered understanding of migration in the past 30 years. It explores different and emerging approaches in major areas, such as: gendered labour markets across diverse sectors beyond domestic and care work to include skilled sectors of social reproduction; the significance of families in migration and transnational families; displacement, asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality in asylum determination; academic critiques and gendered discourses concerning integration often with the focus on Muslim women. The reader concludes with considerations of the potential impact of three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities: Black Lives Matter, Brexit and COVID-19. As such, it is a valuable resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.


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Insufficient funds
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ISBN: 0804790566 9780804790567 0804777314 9780804777315 0804777322 9780804777322 9780804777315 9780804777322 Year: 2014 Publisher: Stanford, California


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Outward and Upward Mobilities : International Students in Canada, Their Families, and Structuring Institutions
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ISBN: 9781487530563 1487530560 1487504624 9781487504625 1487530579 Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"People move out to move up. Like other migrant groups, student mobility is a form of social mobility, and one that requires access from a host state. But there are multiple institutions with which students interact and that influence the processes of social mobility. Outward and Upward Mobilities investigates the connection between student and institution. The collection features work by key scholars in the field and considers international students from across Canada regardless of legal status. Exploring how international students and their families fare in local ethnic communities, educational and professional institutions, and the labour market, this volume demonstrates the need to ask more critical questions about the short- and long-term effects of temporary legal status, how student and family experiences differ by educational level and region of settlement, the barriers to and facilitators of adaptation and integration, and ultimately, to what extent individual, familial, institutional, and state goals function in harmony and in discord."--


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Kids at work
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ISBN: 1479881074 9781479881079 1479811513 1479873705 9781479811519 9781479873708 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York

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How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles—and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three years spent on the streets shadowing families at work, Estrada brings attention to the unique set of hardships Latinx youth experience in this occupation. She also highlights how these hardships can serve to cement family bonds, develop empathy towards parents, encourage hard work, and support children—and their parents—in their efforts to make a living together in the United States. Kids at Work provides a compassionate, up-close portrait of Latinx children, detailing the complexities and nuances of family relations when children help generate income for the household as they peddle the streets of LA alongside their immigrant parents.


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Everyday illegal
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ISBN: 0520283406 0520959272 9780520959279 9780520283398 0520283392 9780520283404 132288935X Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California

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What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to respond to the changing landscape of immigration, the effects of policies on people's daily lives are all too often overlooked. In Everyday Illegal, award-winning author Joanna Dreby recounts the stories of children and parents in eighty-one families to show what happens when a restrictive immigration system emphasizes deportation over legalization. Interweaving her own experiences, Dreby illustrates how bitter strains can arise in relationships when spouses have different legal status. She introduces us to "suddenly single mothers" who struggle to place food on the table and pay rent after their husbands have been deported. Taking us into the homes and schools of children living in increasingly vulnerable circumstances, she presents families that are divided internally, with some children having legal status while their siblings are undocumented. Even children who are U.S. citizens regularly associate immigration with illegality. With vivid ethnographic details and a striking narrative, Everyday Illegal forces us to confront the devastating impacts of our immigration policies as seen through the eyes of children and their families. As legal status influences identity formation, alters the division of power within families, and affects the opportunities children have outside the home, it becomes a growing source of inequality that ultimately touches us all.


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Divided by borders
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ISBN: 1282422316 9786612422317 0520945832 9780520945838 0520266609 9780520266605 0520260902 9780520260900 9781282422315 6612422319 9780520260887 0520260880 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage when they are living apart? More importantly, do parents' relocations yield the intended results? Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders. What she finds is that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect. Yet, paradoxically, these hardships reinforce family members' commitments to each other. A story both of adversity and the intensity of family ties, Divided by Borders is an engaging and insightful investigation of the ways Mexican families struggle and ultimately persevere in a global economy.

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Emigrant remittances - Mexico. --- Emigrant remittances -- Mexico. --- Households - Mexico. --- Households -- Mexico. --- Marital conflict. --- Marital conflict -- Case studies. --- Mexicans - Family relationships - United States. --- Mexicans -- Family relationships --United States -- Case studies. --- Mexico - Emigration and immigration. --- Mexico -- Emigration and immigration. --- Parent and child. --- Parent and child -- Case studies. --- Mexicans --- Emigrant remittances --- Households --- Marital conflict --- Parent and child --- Immigration & Emigration --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Child and parent --- Children and parents --- Parent-child relations --- Parents and children --- Children and adults --- Interpersonal relations --- Parental alienation syndrome --- Sandwich generation --- Conflict, Marital --- Conflict (Psychology) in marriage --- Interpersonal conflict --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Immigrant remittances --- Remittances, Emigrant --- Foreign exchange --- Ethnology --- Family relationships --- america. --- american border. --- children of migrants. --- discussion books. --- divided families. --- economics. --- emigration immigration. --- family issues. --- family ties. --- family. --- global economy. --- immigrants and immigration. --- immigration and immigrants. --- mexican children. --- mexican families. --- mexican migrants. --- mexicans. --- mexico. --- migrant parents. --- migrant workers. --- overcoming adversity. --- parents and children. --- parents sacrifices. --- relocation. --- social science. --- thought provoking. --- transnational families. --- united states. --- Mexico --- Emigration and immigration.


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Illegal encounters
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ISBN: 1479860417 9781479860418 1479861073 147988779X 9781479861071 9781479887798 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York

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The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth. In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young people--those who migrate as well as those who are affected by the migration of others. A primary focus of the volume is to understand how children and youth encounter, move through, or are outside of a range of legal processes, including border enforcement, immigration detention, federal custody, courts, and state processes of categorization. Even if young people do not directly interact with state immigration systems--because they are U.S. citizens or have avoided detention--they are nonetheless deeply affected by the reach of the government in its many forms. Contributors privilege the voices and everyday experiences of immigrant children and youth themselves. By combining different perspectives from advocates, service providers, attorneys, researchers, and young immigrants, the volume presents rich accounts that can contribute to informed debates and policy reforms. Illegal Encounters sheds light on the unique ways in which policies, laws, and legal categories shape so much of daily life for young immigrants. The book makes visible the burdens, hopes, and potential of a population of young people and their families who have been largely hidden from public view and are currently under siege, following their movement through complicated immigration systems and institutions in the United States.--Publisher website.

Care across generations : solidarity and sacrifice in transnational families
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ISBN: 9781503602045 9781503602885 1503602044 1503602885 9781503602953 1503602958 9780804731331 0804731330 9780804731348 0804731349 Year: 2017 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Many studies have looked at how migration transforms the child-parent relationship. But what happens to other generational relationships when mothers migrate? Care Across Generations takes a close look at grandmother care in Nicaraguan transnational families, examining both the structural and gendered inequalities that motivate migration and caregiving as well as the cultural values that sustain intergenerational care. Kristin E. Yarris broadens the transnational migrant story beyond the parent-child relationship, situating care across generations and embedded within the kin networks in sending countries. Rather than casting the consequences of women's migration in migrant sending countries solely in terms of a "care deficit," Yarris shows how intergenerational reconfigurations of care serve as a resource for the wellbeing of children and other family members who stay behind after transnational migration. Moving our perspective across borders and over generations, Care Across Generations shows the social and moral value of intergenerational care for contemporary transnational families.

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Migration. Refugees --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Nicaragua --- Immigrant families --- Grandparents as parents --- Grandmothers --- Women immigrants --- Children of immigrants --- Kinship care --- Intergenerational relations --- Transnationalism --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Caregiving, Kinship --- Kinship caregiving --- Kinship foster care --- Foster home care --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- Immigrant women --- Grandmas --- Grandparents --- Parenting by grandparents --- Parenting grandparents --- Skip-generation parents --- Parents --- Families of emigrants --- Families --- Family relationships --- Social aspects --- Nikaragua --- Nikaragoua --- República de Nicaragua --- Republic of Nicaragua --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Children --- Nutrition policy --- S11/0702 --- S11/0731 --- S21/0600 --- Food --- Food policy --- Nutrition --- Nutrition and state --- State and nutrition --- Social policy --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family in transition: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese food and cookery, (incl. tea) --- Government policy --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H2220 --- #SBIB:316.8H10 --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Gezinssociologie: gezinsrelaties: algemeen --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: algemeen --- Enfants --- Politique alimentaire --- Alimentation --- Latin America. --- Nicaragua. --- care. --- gender. --- grandmothers. --- intergenerational. --- kinship. --- migration. --- transnational families. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.

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